Category Archives: Journalism

Where to watch NZ election coverage online + examples of coverage

By Julie Starr | Published: November 25, 2011

Updated Nov 26, 2011 A few links on some of the ways media (and a few other organisations) covered the build-up and election night of the general election and referendum in New Zealand (Saturday Nov 26 2011) – #votenz. The (preliminary) election result Party Party Votes % Votes Electorate Seats List Seats Total Seats National [...]

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Paul Lewis on two persuasive examples of the value of crowdsourcing news

By Julie Starr | Published: November 24, 2011

If you haven’t seen this already… a couple of persuasive examples of the power of crowdsourcing in journalism from Guardian Special Projects Editor Paul Lewis. He talks about how Twitter and other social media helped him find witnesses to the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during riots in London and track down passengers on [...]

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Ten tips for kick-starting a malnourished news website

By Julie Starr | Published: November 22, 2011

We can’t all be the New York Times or the Guardian. Many smaller newspaper newsrooms are still grappling with the basics of how to get their websites moving given a small staff, lack of digital expertise and uncertainty over revenue opportunities. Sometimes there’s no real will among managers for the task. But even when there [...]

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Bye bye Ellis, scholarship deadline, flying papers, and other NZ media news

By Julie Starr | Published: November 21, 2011

A few snippets from NZ media that have been lurking in my browser the last week or so. TVNZ CEO Rick Ellis resigns Rick Ellis’ departure from the chief executive’s office at Television New Zealand has left the door open for a range of contenders to take over where he left off. One of those contenders [...]

Also posted in Newspapers | Tagged apn, augmented reality, Kiwi Asian Journalism Scholarship, newspaper apps, newspaper readership, Nielsen, NZ Herald, Rick Ellis, tvnz | Leave a comment

TVNZ head of news, RadioLive newsreaders, Sunday Magazine editor: #journalism #jobs

By Julie Starr | Published: November 11, 2011

New Zealand HEAD OF NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS | TVNZ This role is positioned in the Senior Leadership Team to provide strategic, operational and editorial leadership of TVNZ News, Current Affairs and Maori and Pacific programmes. Applicants should possess well-demonstrated success in executive and editorial team leadership, broad experience and achievement in commercial television and digital [...]